Genesis 27:46

and ch. Genesis 28:1-9. This passage is from P, as is shewn by the characteristic language and phraseology. It supplies a different motive for Jacob's journey. He is to go to Paddan-aram, Genesis 28:2, not to Haran as in Genesis 27:43. Jacob's deception is ignored; his departure is on a journey for a visit, and on a mission for a wife, not in flight from fear of assassination. Esau, in Genesis 28:6, makes no reference to the events recorded in chap. 27. The passage interrupts the story of Jacob in J, which is resumed in Genesis 28:10; it gives a parallel and distinct treatment of Jacob's journey into the Aramaean region: it refers back to a previous passage from P, which records how Esau had married two "Hittite" wives (Genesis 26:34-35). Rebekah fears Jacob may do the same; Jacob is sent away with Isaac's blessing (Genesis 28:3-4), and without reference to the great deception.

I am weary of my life See note on Genesis 26:34-35. The "daughters of Heth" clearly mean Esau's two wives. This passage resumes the P narrative of Genesis 26:35.

what good, &c. Cf. Rebekah's words, Genesis 25:22, "if it be so, wherefore do I live?"